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Toy & Game Organizations

Toy and game organizations play a vital role in shaping the industry by fostering innovation, supporting creators, and ensuring safety standards. Whether you’re looking to connect with industry professionals, stay updated on the latest trends, or discover resources for toy and game development, these organizations are key players. From advocacy groups to professional networks, they help drive the future of play.
ASTRA
Founded in 1992, the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (ASTRA) is an international not-for-profit trade organization that serves more than 1,800 independent retailers, manufacturers, and sales representatives of the specialty toy industry. ASTRA is a dedicated community of professionals committed to providing children with healthy, quality play materials that have high play value.
GAMA
The essential nexus for new and experienced game industry professionals, GAMA serves to promote its members' common interest - increasing the adoption of and engagement with tabletop games. GAMA fosters networking, sharing of best practices and innovations, and the pooling of resources toward common goals. GAMA achieves this through hosting trade and consumer shows, industry events, providing an information and resource hub, marketing activities, and interfacing with other trade organizations in adjoining industries.
TTGDA
The mission of the Tabletop Game Designers Association is to promote the craft of tabletop game design through education and support, to advocate for the designers of tabletop games; and build community among game designers. Their vision is to foster thriving community of game designers that support and learn from one another to create amazing games, a games industry that respects the labor and intellectual property of game designers; and a trade organization that helps designers navigate both.
BoardGameGeek
BoardGameGeek is an online resource and community that aims to be the definitive source for board game and card game content. The site is updated on a real-time basis by its large and still growing user base — more than two million registered users! — making the Geek the largest and most up-to-date place to get gaming information! You can become a registered member of BGG for free, although we welcome your contributions to the site in the form of ratings, reviews, and thoughts on games to the existing database!
Game Designers of North Carolina
Game Designers of North Carolina (GDoNC) is a group for board game designers and playtesters based in Raleigh, NC. Come join us!
The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter (TGC) is the world’s first web-to-print game publishing company and offers a print on demand game publishing service. TGC empowers game designers around the world by allowing them to make a board game, card game, and custom playing cards through a website. Using the latest web technology, TGC developed an online publishing platform that simplifies the design, manufacturing, and retail processes related to tabletop games.
The Unpublished Games Network (Unpub)
Founded in 2010 by John Moller, The Unpublished Games Network, colloquially called Unpub, is a non-profit organization serving the tabletop community to build better games together through playtesting events, mentorship, and education programs. While the nucleus of our early community was the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, our reach and membership has grown steadily across the globe. Our hope is to create a stronger tabletop games community while promoting the creative projects of our members and encouraging the improvement of their games.
People of Play
People of Play is the toy industry's most comprehensive networking and resource hub; a social platform and industry portal where toy industry veterans, newbies, inventors, buyers, job seekers, recruiters, consumers, and others come to find each other. Get up-to-the-minute toy industry, event, and product news; participate in live online educational and networking events; browse a vast library of expert resources; and peruse and post to the industry's only dedicated social feed.
Indie Game Alliance
We've built an international team comprised of independent designers and publishers, writers and artists, and most importantly, players. We handle the recruiting, organization, and logistics. Want your game in distribution? Done. We've negotiated member discounts with industry-leading vendors on manufacturing, services, and everything else you'll need.
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